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disowned her Master, desiring to be mistress of her own lust, taking all things to herself to feed her emptiness; and she fled off to the south, escaping the assaults of the Angels, and the knights of Michael, for their vigilance had ever been to the north, and the south was long unheeded. Thence she had crept towards the light of the Promised Land; for she hungered for light and hated it.

In a ravine she lived, and took shape as a spider of monstrous form, weaving her black webs in a cleft of the mountains. There she sucked up all light that she could find, and spun it forth again in dark nets of strangling gloom, until no light more could come to her abode; and she was famished.

Now samael came to Hinnom and sought her out; and he put on again the form that he had worn as the tyrant of Abaddon: a dark Lord, tall and terrible. In that form he remained ever after. There in the black shadows, beyond the sight even of Metatron in his highest halls, samael with Ungoliant plotted his revenge. But when Ungoliant understood the purpose of samael, she was torn between lust and great fear; for she was loath to dare the perils of heaven and the power of the dreadful Lords, and she would not stir from her hiding. Therefore samael said to her: "Do as I bid; and if thou hunger still when all is done, then I will give thee whatsoever thy lust may demand. Yea, with both hands." Lightly he made this promise, as he ever did; and he laughed in his heart. Thus did the great thief set his lure for the lesser.

A cloak of darkness she wove about them when samael and Ungoliant set forth; an Unlight, in which things seemed to be no more, and which eyes could not pierce, for it was Void. Then slowly she wrought her webs: rope by rope from cleft to

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